"Sure. Sit down, doc, I'll tell you the story about the boy from Oz," John says. "Once upon a time, he was just your average astronaut living at the turn of the 21st century, when all of a sudden he got sucked through a wormhole and spit out in the most distant parts of space. Upon arrival, he was shot up with this weird alien goo that allowed him to understand thousands, maybe millions of alien dialects. The goo, they said, contains micro-biological organisms that feed off of alien speech like ticks on a dog, processing that into words we puny humans can understand. Now that everyone's speaking the same language, one alien yells this, another yells that, and the boy from Oz gets thrown into the slammer with that."
He points at the dark-haired woman who's being seen to by Dr. McCoy. "The radiant Aeryn Sun, Peacekeeper commando, a Sebacean with a penchant for violence and a winning personality. You got dental on this boat? 'Cuz she'll knock the teeth right out of your head if the fancy strikes her. That's why I'm sitting over here." Whether he means he's keeping his distance out of self-preservation, or keeping an eye on Aeryn to make sure she doesn't lose it on anybody here, the doc's just going to have to wait and see.
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"Sure. Sit down, doc, I'll tell you the story about the boy from Oz," John says. "Once upon a time, he was just your average astronaut living at the turn of the 21st century, when all of a sudden he got sucked through a wormhole and spit out in the most distant parts of space. Upon arrival, he was shot up with this weird alien goo that allowed him to understand thousands, maybe millions of alien dialects. The goo, they said, contains micro-biological organisms that feed off of alien speech like ticks on a dog, processing that into words we puny humans can understand. Now that everyone's speaking the same language, one alien yells this, another yells that, and the boy from Oz gets thrown into the slammer with that."
He points at the dark-haired woman who's being seen to by Dr. McCoy. "The radiant Aeryn Sun, Peacekeeper commando, a Sebacean with a penchant for violence and a winning personality. You got dental on this boat? 'Cuz she'll knock the teeth right out of your head if the fancy strikes her. That's why I'm sitting over here." Whether he means he's keeping his distance out of self-preservation, or keeping an eye on Aeryn to make sure she doesn't lose it on anybody here, the doc's just going to have to wait and see.